It's not an underhanded trick. Please respond to the most charitable interpretation of my comment, as per HN guidelines. > To meet with the comment head-on: Yo

It's not an underhanded trick. Please respond to the most charitable interpretation of my comment, as per HN guidelines. > To meet with the comment head-on: You assert that nobody is supporting a family on minimum wage, so there's no reason to increase the minimum wage or have social welfare programs that help people on minimum wage. That's not at all what I'm trying to insinuate. I even said that: > I'm most interested in what percentage of those with dependents are working minimum wage jobs and what percentage of those that started out with minimum wage jobs have been unable to increase their earnings. MY guess is that these numbers are also terrible, but this is the thing to get down. I literally said that I bet the numbers that I'm interested in will likely show that there are too many people with dependents working minimum wage jobs. That doesn't mean we shouldn't track the data. That is what shows us what will help. Please respond in good faith.....